Word: sportswear
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...think it’s a really interesting concept,” he said. “Their retro stuff is a different flavor than traditional sportswear...
Latin culture has joined hip-hop as a muse to the major players in fashion. Perry Ellis International announced the launch last month of two Latin-inspired and Latin-targeted women's sportswear lines: Cubavera, to be sold at major department stores, and Havanera Co., a private label to be manufactured for JCPenney. Each is an extension of a successful men's line bearing the same name. "Our Hispanic-focused brands brought in $23 million in revenue in fiscal 2003, and we expect to almost double that for fiscal 2004," says Perry Ellis International's CEO, George Feldenkreis. "At this...
Given these remarks, I’ve no doubt that Finn is a resplendent physical specimen, and that he’s up-to-date on all of the latest trends in athletic apparel and sportswear. But this scarcely seems like a license to direct such sneering comments toward the entire Harvard community. I hope he has the good sense to offer an apology...
...time to get real," said Joan Kaner, Neiman Marcus' fashion director. "Fashion is not about frivolity and shock." American fashion, of course, has never been big on risk taking. Designers in the U.S. are predictable in their dedication to sportswear, leaving shock tactics to their European colleagues. Along with predictability comes safety, a belief that certain designers--the triumvirate of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan--are fashion's bedrock. But all of a sudden there was a tectonic shift, as if Klein's departure left everything else on shifting sand...
...upside, the changes leave room for young designers like Alice Roi and Behnaz Sarafpour to step up, but they appear to be having separation anxiety. Many of their ideas echo the kind of cool, upbeat sportswear that made Klein famous in the '70s, when models like Lauren Hutton bounced off the fashion pages with little more than a gap-tooth smile and a shrugged-on pair of shorts. But the newfound--or recycled--optimism rings hollow; fashion's new generation of designers seems fettered by nerves...